The details for the ESEA Finals and Arbalet Cup Dallas have finally been released via ESEA’s site after much anticipation. The event’s will be working hand in hand, both taking place within a week of each other. Up for grabs is over $130,000 between the two events. Below is the official press release from ESEA:

E-Sports Entertainment (ESEA) and “Arbalet Cup World Series” are teaming up to bring the host the biggest week of Counter-Strike in North America since 2004. ESEA’s Season 6 LAN Playoffs will be held back to back and in conjunction with the Arbalet Cup Dallas in July.

The ESEA Season 6 LAN Playoffs are the culmination of a sixteen match regular season and will feature the top six CS 1.6 invite division, four CS 1.6 main division, four CS: Source invite division, and four TF2 invite division teams battling it out for their piece of the $50,000 cash prize purse.

Following the ESEA LAN Playoffs, the ten CS 1.6 teams from ESEA League will join 22 of the top teams from around the world to compete for in the $80,000 “Arbalet Cup Dallas”. The event will be the first Arbalet Cup in North America and will bring word class Counter-Strike competition back to the United States.

“We are excited to announce the next step in the Arbalet Cup World Series. This summer, together with ESEA, we will host Arbalet Cup Dallas, the first international championship using our new format,” said Alexy “LeX” Kolesnikov. “Arbalet Cup Dallas will bring the world’s top gamers to Dallas to compete with the American elite in an exciting and action packed 32 team invitational tournament. Together with ESEA, we will do our best to provide the most comfortable atmosphere for the competitors and provide a professional video and HLTV broadcasting experience to spectators around the world.”

The event also features a limited BYOC for fans to enjoy a week of gaming and get involved in the action. Fans unable to attend can enjoy SpecTVs, photos, video interviews, and live score updates.

“It is a great opportunity to combine the ESEA Season 6 LAN Playoffs and open BYOC with the Arbalet Cup Dallas,” said Craig “Torbull” Levine. “The Arbalet Cup will bring world class Counter-Strike competition back to the United States, and together with the ESEA LAN Playoffs, we will host an amazing week of gaming for competitors and fans.”

More information on the event and BYOC registration will be released in the coming days.

The details are as follows:

Location: Hella Shrine in Garland, TX

Schedule of Activities
July 14 – 15    ESEA Season 6 CS 1.6 invite and main LAN Playoffs
July 16 – 18    Arbalet Cup Dallas & open BYOC
July 17 – 18    ESEA Season 6 CS: Source and TF2 invite LAN Playoffs

Arbalet Cup Dallas Information
Structure:         32 team invitational tournament
Official Maps:  de_dust2, de_inferno, de_train, de_nuke, & de_tuscan
Prize Pool:       $80,000 total prize purse

More information can be found at ESEA.net

ESWC has just released the list of teams that they have personally selected for each individual game in the ESWC World Final 2010 to be hosted at Disneyland Paris. Teams were selected based on accomplishments and international competitions. ESWC has decided to invite these specific teams to make up for the lack of national qualfiiers for the specific region.

The list of teams are as follows:

Counter-Strike:

evil Geniuses (US)
Playing Zone (FI)
mTw (DK)
compLexity (US)
Wemade Fox (KR)
Alternate (DE)
OSLF (DK)
Kaos (NL)

CS:Women:

Fnatic (SE)
uNNFINISHED (SE)
Aurora Gaming (DK)
Thermaltake (DE)
blith gaming (US)
mibr (BR)
iNNERFIRE (BU)
Asus Ladies (CZ)
Delinquent Habits (GR)

Defense of The Ancients :

Blight Gaming DotA (SE)
Nirvana.International (US)
MCiTY DotA (AU)
Meet Your Makers (DK)
Local Area Network(DE)
Online Kingdom (DE)
Tribal Gaming International (RS)
The Elder Gods (RO)
CNB-Gaming (BR)

Warcraft 3 TFT:

Grubby (NL)
Thomas (DK)
HolyHuman (US)
Thorzan (SE)
VeryB1gman (KZ)
Satini (FI)
Xlord (DE)
SOKOL (DE)
p1nke (HR)
Vortix (ES)

Quake Live:

DaHanG (US)
K1llsen (DE)
Stermy (IT)
Noctis (AT)
Sl1p (ES)
Dem0n (BE)

Trackmania:

Bergie (NO)
gaLLo (DE)
Moriah (PT)
Tamarillo (NL)
PeZi (AT)
Fruit (AT)
HotSwat (IE)
Munkeholm (DK)

Street Fighter IV:

Jwong (US)
Marn (US)
infiltration (KR)
LAUGH (KR)
Zak (UK)
prodigal son (UK)
Chasin (NL)

Guitar Hero 5:

smokyprogg (US)
Boyke (NL)
lilirock (CA)
TestTeam (KR)
KD Cypher (DE)
Chaos Legend (SG)
Sestevez (MX)
PoPoX (AT)

Need For Speed:Shift:

HuSKy (DE)
Sliver (DE)
Speed (BR)
Steffan (NL)
Minus (CA)
GPX-CAR (TW)

According to the ESWC website:

Those selected teams and players will have to confirm their presence and provide to ESWC Organizing Committee their travel justification before

ESWC will provide complimentary accommodation (bed and breakfast) from June 30th (arrival) to July 5th (departure). All invited players and teams will have to set their journey and secure their travel before June 11th at [email protected].

More information regarding this announcement can be found at the ESWC Official Site

With Season 6 coming to an end, ESEA has started the voting process for the representitives of the East and West teams in their respective all-star games. 18 players have been chosen for CS as well as for CS:S, while 24 players have been selected for TF2. The all-star game is set to take place on June 10th.

compLexity is featured in both CS 1.6 and TF2 this season, with 5 of our players up for nomination.

CS 1.6

East
buskey (ULTIMAX GAMING)
dboorN^_^vauMs (compLexity)
Garett^ (East Coast Offensive)
herotowNCBCB (compLexity)
icy^t (High Rollers Gaming)
iNERTiA (Underestimated)
n0swal (East Coast Offensive)
nAZ_Lg (Loaded_CS)
SEMPHIS^FETCH (Ruins)

West
Adrenaline_1g (Loaded_CS)
djibouti (Loaded_CS)
fRoD^A (Evil Geniuses)
n0thing^G (Evil Geniuses)
seangares_a (Ruins)
spyro (Underestimated)
TRULS (Ruins)
tuBBy^_^st (ULTIMAX GAMING)
zid_ (Underestimated)

CS:S

East
adreN_HOAG (Dynamic-CSS)
AZK (Dynamic-CSS)
devour (Demonic)
forever0_p_ (Immortal Seven CSS)
hRL (Blight CSS CA)
Legend_ (Dynamic-CSS)
ridic (Demonic)
ridox (Blight CSS CA)
UTP (Crucial Connexion)

West
_–aLive–_ (51)
COLO_ (Blight CSS CA)
DaZeD (Netcode Illuminati)
frozt (Netcode Illuminati)
hersheysquirtsss (n24life)
jarrod_ (CyberRevolution)
TORRR (Crucial Connexion)
xperience (Netcode Illuminati)
yehoshuaparuah (CyberRevolution)

TF2

East
-CB (Area51 Gaming)
bigpun (Nexus Gaming)
carnage (ComplexityTF2)
cyzer (EG TF2)
FastFire (Area51 Gaming)
Platinum- (Blight Gaming TF2)
raf (eMazing Gaming TF2)
Reptile_ (EG TF2)
RocketSurgeon (Nexus Gaming)
smakers (Blight Gaming TF2)
SoLIDSnaKE (ComplexityTF2)
TheFragile (blight-fanom)

West
-Otter (Apocalypse Gaming)
ducky (Area51 Gaming)
dummy (EG TF2)
enoryt (eMazing Gaming TF2)
exploit (ComplexityTF2)
Luciious (Nexus Gaming)
mesr (Blight Gaming TF2)
Ruwin (blight-fanom)
Sigma (Apocalypse Gaming)
TLR (blight-fanom)
xsephy (Apocalypse Gaming)
Yz50 (eMazing Gaming TF2)

Voting will be open until June 8th. Place your votes by clicking here

Today’s show will feature a very special guest, one who they’ve been teasing about for a long time. Major League Gaming‘s Sundance DiGiovanni will join the show, giving his first interview since becoming CEO of MLG when three weeks ago former CEO Matthew Bromberg stepped down after a difference in opinion with Sundance on the future of MLG.

They will talk with Sundance about several topics including:

The incident with Bromberg and what his differing vision of the league is, additions to the PC circuit including the possible selection of Quake Live and Starcraft 2, the difficulties of inclding Super Street Fighter 4, the release of Halo: Reach and the impact moving forward, the floundering of GotFrag.com and how GameBattles.com is shaping up, and why MLG refuses to use the term “eSports”, plus much more!

Other news topics today include:

– Blizzard signs official deal with GomTV for Starcraft 2, Starcraft, Warcraft 3 and WoW in Korea, dropping KeSPA and giving the league’s till August to figure things out
– Flash destroys a rather lackluster Jaedong 3-0 to win the MSL finals
– White-Ra takes out Idra in the HDH finals, Tester wrecks Idra and White-Ra in the Altitude TL Invitational
– EG announces MSI tournament series for Quake Live, CS 1.6, TF2 and Starcraft 2 which will have at least $3,500 per tournament
– Na’Vi invited to Dreamhack, DaHanG has to drop out due to school commitments
– ESWC hosting a $5,000 fragmovie contest
– Live updates from the NorCal Regionals featuring Justin Wong, Mike Ross, John Choi, Ricky Ortiz and more

Tune into Live On Three today at 21:00 BST on djWHEAT.tv